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Ceanothus americanus is a shrub that lives up to fifteen years and growing between 18 and 42 in (0.5 and 1 m) high, having many thin branches.Its root system is thick with fibrous root hairs close to the surface, but with stout, burlish, woody roots that reach deep into the earth—root systems may grow very large in the wild, to compensate after repeated exposures to wildfires.
Phyllanthus fluitans, also known as the red root floater, floating spurge, [3] [4] or apple duckweed is a species of free floating aquatic plant and herbaceous perennial [5] in the family Phyllanthaceae. [6] This species is one of the only three non-terrestrial species in the genus Phyllanthus, with the other species being P. leonardianus [7 ...
The roots of A. ferox supply the Nepalese poison called bikh, bish, or nabee. It contains large quantities of the alkaloid pseudaconitine, which is a deadly poison. The root of A. luridum, of the Himalaya, is said to be as poisonous as that of A. ferox or A. napellus. [4] Several species of Aconitum have been used as arrow poisons.
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Roots of trees. Early root growth is one of the functions of the apical meristem located near the tip of the root. The meristem cells more or less continuously divide, producing more meristem, root cap cells (these are sacrificed to protect the meristem), and undifferentiated root cells. The latter become the primary tissues of the root, first ...
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Cyperus erythrorhizos is a species of sedge known by the common names red-rooted flatsedge [2] or redroot flatsedge. [3] It is found across much of North America from Maine , Ontario [ 2 ] [ 1 ] and British Columbia [ 4 ] south to Tabasco in southern Mexico .